“Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most—you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love. This, my dear, is love.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (trans. Philip Boehm)
Tag: i’m the meat you’re the knife
I always thought the choice was mine
And I was right, but I just chose wrong
I start the day lying and end with the truth
That I’m dying for the knife
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”Working for the Knife” by Mitski
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“The history of mankind in four words…”
“Mimi nyama, wewe kisu. I’m the meat, you’re the knife.”
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